Examining Cylindrical Dice

Dustin L. Jones

An activity where prospective
mathematics teachers made hypotheses about the dimensions of a fair cylindrical
die and conducted experiments with different cylinders. He also provides a
model that estimates the probability that a cylinder would land on the lateral
surface, depending on the height and diameter of the cylinder.

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